[Partial copy of Chronicon]

Alternate Title:

Initium Chronici Siceberti.

Name:

Sigebert, of Gembloux, approximately 1030-1112

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1475

Description:

Beginning of Sigebert of Gembloux's continuation of the chronicle of Jerome, in which he traces the reigns of kings of various kingdoms. The last reference is to Pope Zosimus (417 CE; f. 6v).

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York), 1964.

Subject:

World history -- Early works to 1800; World history

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

chronicles; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

10 leaves : paper; 263 x 190 mm bound to 218 x 155 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. gathering.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Collation: Paper, 10; 1² 2⁸ (f. 7-10 blank).; Layout: Written in 47-50 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.; Script: Written in Gothic cursive script.; Decoration: 4-line initial (f. 2r) and 3-line initial (f. 1r) in red; paragraph marks in red followed by initials slashed with red on first page (f. 1r).; Binding: Bound with Strabo's Geographia (Paris: Gourmont, 1512) in 18th-century calf including gilt spine title Initium Chronic[i] Sicebert[i] MS.; Origin: Probably written in Belgium, possibly in Gembloux (inscription on title page of printed work, Bibliotheca Gemblacensis), in the late 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Latin.; Related Work: Sigebert, of Gembloux, approximately 1030-1112. Chronicon.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Folio GrC St812 Ef512g